Chou Cheng

As they are going to visit their former teacher, Micky, who is seriously ill, three men who were buddies back in their high school years are reunited. Moreover, they go back to the old cram school, reminiscing about their rebellious youth. In the 1990s, that cram school was known for its strict rules and the trio, who loved making trouble, had given the director a big headache until Micky arrived as a new teacher. He not only tamed the boys but became a good friend to them. Micky often talked about romantic relationships and sexuality to the students and made documentaries to speak up for the gay community. It is because of him that the students got to understand the homosexual or even themselves.

Melody, a teenage girl, lives in a borrowed mansion together with her parents, whose marriage is on the rocks. Though they look like a happy family, they are three people struggling in the game of life. A long-deserted amusement park appears to be the only way out.

Within the walls of the former Green Island prison, political detainee A-Kuen, tells the stories of imprisonment and persecution happened in the 1950s in Taiwan. Among fellow inmates, frozen in time, he recounts his own experiences and those of his friend, A-Ching, who never made it out. Experience the time and place, and the waiting, in hope, for a chance to keep the stories alive.

Mr. Lin is a happily retired man who spends his time keeping company with his toddling grandson, walking his dog, and playing golf with his in-laws. Recently, he has been obsessed with houses with river views. In Lin's city of demolitions and reconstructions, money-making investors buy and sell houses at unaffordable prices. Above the skyline of Taipei, will the boundaries between daydreams and reality ever blur?

미얀마 화교 감독 미디 지가 새로운 스타일로 도전한 심리 스릴러. 작은 시골 마을에서 극단 생활을 하던 소녀 니나 우는 스타의 꿈을 이루기 위해 대도시로 떠난다. 8년간의 별 볼 일 없던 무명시절에서 벗어나 드디어 영화의 주연으로 캐스팅된다. 영화는 1960년대의 스파이 영화로 그녀에게는 일생일대의 기회다. 하지만 언론이나 영화업계가 이 영화가 대박 날 것이라고 굳게 믿고 있는 상황이 부담스럽다. 게다가 전라로 찍는 배드 신이 포함되어 있는 데다, 영화감독은 그녀를 종종 한계상황으로 몰아가는 상황이다. 성공의 찰나에 이르렀을 때 그녀의 정신은 붕괴되기 시작한다. 아버지의 사업실패에 따른 파산과 어머니의 악화되는 심장병이라는 가족의 위기를 맞닥뜨린 그녀는 서둘러 시골집으로 내려간다. 오랜시간 가깝게 지내온 어린 시절 친구 키키와의 관계를 회복하려 하지만 정체를 알 수 없는 여자가 자신을 스토킹하며 해치려 한다는 망상에 사로잡힌다. 지금껏 스스로 잊으려고 억압해온 치명적인 기억이 점차 수면위로 떠오르는데…

Two girls in the bloom of youth meet at a vocational training program. Afterwards, their lives move in completely different directions.

A night-year-old kid's divorced parents are both having new families. He leaves his father's house in Taipei and goes on a road trip to seek shelter at his mother's B&B in Hualien but only finds out there's no such place for him to call home.

Wang Shin-hong is suffering from insomnia. A fortune teller advises the Mandalay businessman, whose car and bulging wallet suggest that business is going pretty well, to spend 14 days in a monastery, living life as a monk and eating an apple a day. Such a thing is possible in Burma today. Wang Shin-hong arrives at the rural monastery, has his head shaved and dons a red robe, in which he instantly becomes an authority. During the welcome procession, the village women, their poverty clear from their clothing and the huts in the background, put more than they have in his alms bowl. During his fleeting role as their advisor, Wang Shin-hong soon learns of the villagers’ attempts to survive and make a living as legal or illegal migrants in China, Thailand or Malaysia. He also finds out how the other monks try to generate profit and additional income.

A fascinating documentary, shot in the mountainous north of Burma. No filmmaker is welcome there, because, against the background of a civil war, the jade miners enter the deserted mines illegally. With the aid of filming locals, however, Midi Z was able to compile this portrait. Getting rich quick turns out to be hard and risky work Jade has always been a valuable commodity in Asia. In the mountains in the north of Burma there are valuable deposits of jade. The area forms part of Kachin State, inhabited by many ethnic groups which found themselves embroiled in the Civil War in 2010 with the Burmese government. Jade mining was halted because of the conflict. Thousands of workers, however, went to the war zone in order to dig for illegal jade. It turned the region into a no-go area and the filmmaker Midi Z, who had so far made feature films in Burma, saw no opportunity to go and film there. It was far too dangerous. © iffr.com

In 2012, the Hong Kong International Film Festival invited Tsai Ming-Ling to make the opening short film. Having grown up with Hong Kong's popular culture, Tsai Ming-Liang decided to pay homage by making a "Walker" film, contrasting the Walker's slowness with the frenzied pace of Hong Kong's cosmopolitan life. The film ends with a song by Hong Kong actor and singer Samuel Hui, who was Tsai Ming-Liang's idol during his youth. The film was invited to be the closing short film for the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.

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